CHAPTER III.
PROGRESS OF THE PLAGUE IN FRANCE.
Its arrival at Marseilles — A Parisian doctor's account of the epidemic at Montpellier — Avignon is attacked and suffers terribly — Contemporary account of its ravages by a Canon of the Low Countries — Gui de Chauliac, the Pope's physician — Spread of the infection in every direction — William of Nargis' description of the mortality in Paris — Philip VI. consults the medical faculty — Normandy — Amiens — Account of Gilles Le Muisis, Abbot of Tournay — M. Siméon Luce on the conditions of popular life in France in the Fourteenth century — Agrarian troubles follow the epidemic 34-57
CHAPTER IV.
THE PLAGUE IN OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRIES.
From Sicily the pestilence is carried to the Balearic islands — Majorca — The scourge in Spain — The shores of the Adriatic are visited — From Venice the wave passes into Austria and Hungary — It passes over the Alps into the Tyrol and Switzerland — Account of a Notary of Novara — From Avignon the epidemic is carried up the Rhone Valley to the Lake of Geneva — It visits Lucerne and Engelberg — Account of its ravages at Vienna — It goes from Basle up the valley of the Rhine — Frankfort — Bremen — From Flanders it passes into Holland — Denmark, Norway, and Sweden — Account of Wisby on the Island of Gotland — Labour difficulties consequent upon the epidemic 58-70
CHAPTER V.
THE PLAGUE REACHES ENGLAND.
Jersey and Guernsey are attacked — First Rumours of the epidemic in England — It is brought to Melcombe Regis in Dorsetshire — Discussion as to the date — Difficulty in dealing with figures in Middle Ages — Value of episcopal registers in giving institutions of beneficed clergy — Evidence of Patent Rolls — Institutions in Dorsetshire — Letter of the Bishop of Bath and Wells — Difficulty of obtaining clergy — Institutions in Somerset — Effect of the disease in the religious houses — Bristol — Evidence of the mortality in Devon and Cornwall — Institutions in the diocese of Exeter — Spread of mortality — Religious houses of the diocese 71-91